A Study on the Process of Becoming Spiritual Mediums and Family's Support of the Spiritual Mediums of Taiwan Folk Belief
| Autor: | Pei-Ting Huang, 黃珮婷 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 104 The purposes of this research are to discuss the history of the process of becoming spiritual mediums, the views of spirit mediums on life, and the influence of being spirit mediums on the family as well as the degree of support from their family and the responeses mode of them. This thesis utilized "Folk beliefs", "Spirit mediums" and "family" as keywords to search the database in periodicals, theses in Taiwan and other academic documents, and select their contents related to "spirit mediums and the support of the families " as reference. However, a few reseaches about processes of becoming spirit mediums which have something to do with the family shock and family supportive situation are availiable, so this study highlights the importance more. This study adapts the Qualitiative Rearch, In-depth Interview Method, and 3 experienced spirit mediums are classified as research subjects. The results indicate： 1. Before becoming a spirit medium has relevance to religious background. The different degree of devout and pious. The process of becoming a spirit medium is an unique subjective feeling and experience. Becoming spirit mediums is because of his/her different karma conditions, there is no certain context existed. Nevertheless, there is always a connect to the fate of the people who bind the fate between God and people. 2. The views of life of spirit mediums has changed since they became spirit mediums. They all emphasize on the practice of life and devote themselves to accpmplishing the mission of Gods with holding the faith of help, and keeping on salvation. 3. The impact of becoming spirit mediums on their family varies. Each family has individual spportive situation. Even within the same family, the different response styles will be formed because of the different roles in the family, different standpoints and the way of thinking. |
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